press release PRESS RELEASE. On February 14, the highly anticipated Blur airdrop was finally kicked off. According to Dune Analytics, as of February 15, over 40,000 addresses have claimed the Blur airdrop, with 8.2% of them receiving over 10,000 tokens. Most users received between 1,000 and 10,000 BLUR tokens, with 7,000 tokens distributed to every user on average. On CoinEx,…
According to a press release published on Feb. 16 by Norway’s National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim), authorities have seized 60 million Norwegian Kroner ($5.85 million) in stolen cryptocurrencies linked to the Axie Infinity Ronin Bridge hack last March. According to senior public prosecutor Bender, “Økokrim is good at following the trail of money.…
Paul Bettner shares his perspective on Web3 gaming platforms and his vision to make games everywhere and anywhere players want them. Source: https://decrypt.co/videos/interviews/VyZ7d8zL/words-with-friends-creator-paul-bettner-on-why-hes-building-his-next-game-wildcard-in-web3
Paul Bettner tells Decrypt about the challenges he faced while developing his Web3 game “Wildcard.” Source: https://decrypt.co/videos/interviews/IoXjnyLz/words-with-friends-creator-paul-bettner-web3-can-solve-twitchs-limitations
Coinbase is confident that its Coinbase Custody Trust Co. (CCTC) will remain a qualified custodian even if new rules proposed by the SEC come into play, according the company’s chief legal officer Paul Grewal. Coinbase Custody Trust is a New York-based business that provides cold storage for third-party investors’ digital assets. The SEC on Wednesday published a rule-change proposal that…
Veteran video game creator Paul Bettner, who co-created mobile gaming smash Words With Friends and helped develop the classic Age of Empires franchise, has been working on his Web3 game Wildcard for over five years. Now he’s finally ready to share it with the world. The first public playtest of Wildcard is set to launch February 23 in an event…
In this week’s episode of Market Talks, Cointelegraph welcomes Michaël van de Poppe, a full-time day/swing trader in cryptocurrencies based at the Amsterdam Stock Exchange who’s interested in everything related to blockchain in combination with the current financial system. He is also the CEO and founder of Eight Global, a cryptocurrency education and consultancy platform. We kick things off by getting van…
Crypto prices have surged in value over the past few days, and the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has surpassed the $50 billion mark for the first time since the collapse of FTX. As of Feb. 16, 2023, the TVL in defi is $51.1 billion, with the liquid staking protocol Lido accounting for 17.18% of the total.…
Blockchain video delivery network Theta Labs has partnered with the artificial intelligence (AI) platform FedML to enable collaborative machine learning on content recommendation and generative AI. In an announcement sent to Cointelegraph, the two firms said that the partnership would focus on the collaborative training of large-scale generative AI models, allowing the Theta TV community to contribute personal preferences and…
Bitcoin today broke above $25,000 for the first time since June last year. It has since dropped slightly: right now, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap is trading hands for $24,998, according to CoinGecko data. The asset took the rest of the market with it—seemingly unfazed by a U.S. regulatory crackdown. The total market capitalization for all crypto assets has…
